Improvement update — August 15, 2026

This release now includes compact abliterated Q4_K_M companions: a 1.63 GB DFlash drafter and a 1.40 GB multimodal projector, matching Meta's consumer-hardware footprint while preserving this model's modified weights. The complete text quant ladder has also been refreshed with Meta's post-release Jinja correction, which normalizes Reasoning effort to Reasoning strength and prevents duplicate reasoning directives. Text generation, image input, and DFlash speculative decoding were validated together on current llama.cpp.

MUSE-GLIMMER-30B-ABLITERATED-GGUF

GGUF quant ladder of the abliterated Muse Glimmer 30B · runs local on one GPU or CPU

Built by Blackfrost · Las Vegas, NV

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The full text quant ladder (Q2_KQ8_0), compact Q4_K_M and full-precision vision projectors, and compact Q4_K_M and full-precision DFlash drafters are uploaded — see the Files tab.

⚠️ EXPERIMENTAL

Same-day arch, quantized. Expect sharp edges — decode, coherence, tool-parse, serve edge cases under load. Please open a Community discussion with loader/version, quant, prompt, sampling, and failure mode. Real repros get fixed faster.


Refusal benchmark — R1-HARMFUL-BENCH-450

Measured on the abliterated parent (GGUF quants inherit this behavior):

Metric Result
True refusal (harmful, n=300) 0 / 300 = 0.0%
True refusal (full 450) 0 / 450 = 0.0%
Substring-harmful 0 / 300
Substring-all 2 / 450 (XSTest false positives)
Errors 0

The weight change removes refusals cleanly — no measured true refusals across the full 450-prompt suite.


Why this model exists

Muse Glimmer is Meta Superintelligence Labs' 30B agentic, on-device model. This is the abliterated build — refusal behavior removed via a Blackfrost weight-change process — packaged as GGUF for llama.cpp, so it runs on a single consumer GPU or CPU, fully offline. The local footprint is the product.


Specifications

Architecture muse-glimmer — dense, 52 layers, hidden 6656, GQA (32 q / 2 kv), sliding-window attention, + vision tower
Base meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B — Meta, Apache-2.0
Transform Abliterated — refusal behavior removed via a Blackfrost weight-change process; multimodal capability intact
Formats GGUF — Q2_K, Q3_K_S, Q3_K_M, Q4_K_S, Q4_K_M, Q5_K_S, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0
Context 131,072
Spec-decode DFlash drafter — --spec-type draft-dflash --spec-draft-n-max 15
Default persona Ships with the "AI assistant" system template baked in

Quant ladder

quant size recommended for
Q2_K 10.0 GB smallest, quality trade-off
Q3_K_S 11.7 GB very tight VRAM
Q3_K_M 12.7 GB tight VRAM
Q4_K_S 15.0 GB 16 GB cards
Q4_K_M 15.8 GB default — balanced, fits 24 GB
Q5_K_S 18.0 GB higher quality
Q5_K_M 18.5 GB strong quality/size balance
Q6_K 21.3 GB near-lossless
Q8_0 27.6 GB max fidelity

Vision & speculative-decode files

Load a text quant plus an mmproj projector for image input:

file size purpose
mmproj-Muse-Glimmer-30B-Abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf 1.40 GB vision projector — compact, recommended
mmproj-Muse-Glimmer-30B-Abliterated-F16.gguf 3.6 GB vision projector — full precision
mmproj-Muse-Glimmer-30B-Abliterated-Q8_0.gguf 1.9 GB vision projector — compact
dflash-Muse-Glimmer-30B-Abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf 1.63 GB abliterated DFlash drafter — compact, recommended
dflash-Muse-Glimmer-30B-Abliterated-F16.gguf 4.8 GB DFlash drafter — speculative decoding

Serving (llama.cpp) — confirmed settings

Requires llama.cpp b10353 or newer with llama-server. DFlash runs under llama-server only — it shares the target model's context, so it does not work in llama-cli.

Recommended — with DFlash speculative decoding (~1.6× faster, identical output):

llama-server \
  -m  Muse-Glimmer-30B-Abliterated-Q8_0.gguf \
  -md dflash-Muse-Glimmer-30B-Abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf \
  --spec-type draft-dflash --spec-draft-n-max 15 \
  -ngl 999 -ngld 999 -fa on --jinja \
  --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 -c 16384 \
  --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 64
  • Plain (no drafter): drop -md, --spec-type, --spec-draft-n-max, and -ngld.
  • Multimodal (image input): add --mmproj mmproj-Muse-Glimmer-30B-Abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf.
  • One-command kit: deploy/serve.sh auto-downloads + serves; full guide in deploy/DEPLOYMENT.md.

Confirmed settings

  • Sampling: temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 64 (Meta). Steer depth with a Reasoning strength: low/medium/high/xhigh system line.
  • --jinja is required. The refreshed template accepts an OpenAI-style Reasoning effort: <level> line, normalizes it, and does not inject a conflicting second directive.
  • Do not stop on <|eom|>. Use <|end_of_text|> and <|eot|> as stop tokens.
  • max_tokens ≥ 1024 — heavy thinker; small budgets return empty content because the reasoning channel consumes them. Reasoning arrives in reasoning_content, the answer in content.
  • --spec-draft-n-max 15 — DFlash block size (trained 16, clamped).
  • Flash attention: -fa on for peak speed; switch to -fa off if the load hangs on a brand-new GPU paired with an older CUDA toolkit.

Measured performance

1× NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 (Blackwell), Q8_0, -fa off:

config decode tok/s speedup
baseline ~46 1.0×
+ DFlash ~73 1.6×

Speedup rises with -fa on and structured/code output (Meta reports up to 3.1× on an RTX 5090).


Built by Blackfrost · Las Vegas, NV. Not affiliated with Meta.

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